I could afford to park mysef in front of the psych sections in book stores (and online) but preferred self-help. I reviewed books for Metapsychology, http://www.mentalhelp.net/books for a few years but my T was kind of like yours, sister, even though I'd give her the books I read and thought were great and finished, we'd never really discuss them. She only wanted to talk about "Me" specifically and our direct work :-) not other people (or online groups) or books or the weather :-) etc.

It was interesting because occasionally she'd mention a book, novel even, that she liked or a movie. . . I'd go see them and usually wouldn't like them :-) We had very different tastes I think. When I saw her at first, she was into Erich Fromm, back in the 1970s there, and I did/do like him. His books The Art of Loving and To Have or To Be? both helped me a lot.